Could Green Jobs Tip the 2012 Presidential Election?: Seven of the top seventeen states with the most rapid gr...

Seven of the top seventeen states with the most rapid growth in greentech, according to a new study, are considered swing states in the upcoming presidential election . Red, White & Green; The True Colors of America’s Clean Tech Jobs , by DBL Investors ’ Nancy Pfund and Michael Lazar, argues that greentech could help determine which way the U.S. electorate leans on November 6 . “Cleantech jobs are real and growing ,” Pfund told GTM. “The fact that they have become a political football in Washington has no bearing on what’s going on the ground all over our nation.” In the nation’s capital, the report notes, greentech is a partisan issue . Though Republicans from Richard Nixon to Arnold Schwarzenegger championed the environment, their party today has largely chosen to disdain it and leave it to the Democratic Party. In his stump speeches, Republican nominee Mitt Romney repor...